[How friendly will this machine be?] Well, I don’t think it’s a matter of friendliness, because ultimately if the program is going to accomplish anything of value, it will probably be relatively complex. -- Gary Kildall (inventor of CP/M, one of the first OS for the micro).

Why teach drawing to accountants? Because drawing class doesn't just teach people to draw. It teaches them to be more observant. There's no company on earth that wouldn't benefit from having people become more observant. -- Randy S. Nelson (dean of Pixar University)

Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else. -- Eagleson’s Law

Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. (I have made this letter so long only because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter.) -- Blaise Pascal (Lettres Provinciales)

It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. -- WikiHow

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -- Benjamin Franklin

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter. ~Francis Chan

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. –Henry Ford

People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy. ~Tony Robbins

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money. –Abigail Van Buren